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Hello!

Been a longtime user of VLC and appreciate all of the hard work being done for it.

However, I have noticed that the Auto Scan logic could use improvement: Primarily it should detect changes asynchronously while still allowing playback of a previous scan. For example, user opens the app; auto scan processes and updates libraries; user terminates app; user then changes a library and opens the app; auto scan processes but doesn't prevent user from navigating previously scanned media. If a user selects media that can't be found while auto scan is async processing, then a synchronous function would process to try and play the media but inform the user it can't be found after a timeout if auto scan hasn't already removed it.

Another enhancement could be a background process that checks for any changes while a user device is charging or other.

Thoughts?

If a user selects media that can't be found while auto scan is async processing, then a synchronous function would process to try and play the media but inform the user it can't be found after a timeout if auto scan hasn't already removed it.

It should already work that way. Or I don't get your issue here.

Another enhancement could be a background process that checks for any changes while a user device is charging or other.

Yes, it could. We will probably take a look for VLC 4 as some background tasks will be needed for the changes we plan.